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Spoilage Variant: Spoilage

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Maxes in Spoilage games in English currently earn a bronze pencil bronze pencil.

Pencil colour is based on the rate of pencils recently awarded in this variant and dictionary per round played. The rarer the pencils become, the higher the award (from normal to bronze to silver to gold).

FromToPencil
20 September 201012 January 2011pencil pencil
13 January 201127 August 2011bronze pencil bronze pencil
28 August 201117 July 2012pencil pencil
18 July 201217 October 2012bronze pencil bronze pencil
18 October 201216 February 2013pencil pencil
17 February 20139 April 2014bronze pencil bronze pencil
10 April 20149 July 2014silver pencil silver pencil
10 July 20142 December 2014bronze pencil bronze pencil
3 December 20144 December 2014silver pencil silver pencil
5 December 20144 March 2015bronze pencil bronze pencil
5 March 20152 June 2015silver pencil silver pencil
3 June 201523 October 2015bronze pencil bronze pencil
24 October 20151 November 2015pencil pencil
2 November 201523 June 2016bronze pencil bronze pencil
24 June 201620 September 2016pencil pencil
21 September 201628 November 2016bronze pencil bronze pencil
29 November 201614 February 2017silver pencil silver pencil
15 February 20179 November 2017bronze pencil bronze pencil
10 November 20177 February 2018silver pencil silver pencil
8 February 201828 July 2019bronze pencil bronze pencil
29 July 201919 November 2019pencil pencil
20 November 201916 June 2021bronze pencil bronze pencil
17 June 202130 June 2021silver pencil silver pencil
1 July 202128 November 2021bronze pencil bronze pencil
29 November 20213 December 2021silver pencil silver pencil
4 December 202126 July 2022bronze pencil bronze pencil
27 July 202212 August 2022silver pencil silver pencil
13 August 202219 June 2024bronze pencil bronze pencil
20 June 202428 October 2024silver pencil silver pencil
29 October 20242 November 2024bronze pencil bronze pencil
3 November 202416 November 2024pencil pencil
17 November 202422 December 2024bronze pencil bronze pencil
23 December 202429 December 2024silver pencil silver pencil
30 December 202429 March 2025bronze pencil bronze pencil
30 March 20251 May 2025pencil pencil
2 May 202526 August 2025bronze pencil bronze pencil
27 August 202516 January 2026pencil pencil
17 January 202629 March 2026bronze pencil bronze pencil
30 March 20266 May 2026silver pencil silver pencil
7 May 2026Nowbronze pencil bronze pencil

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